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MD/PhD in a brainy field, but this BlueSky is for things that capture my interest more generally #NeuroSky

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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 8h
If you want to know who among your friends is a psychopath, ask them if they are going to live stream this
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 16h
I think there’s a name for this… #InsiderTrading
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Echoes of Annie Jacobsen’s new book “Biological War” in this scenario…Don’t worry about the plague, worry about the plague that is manufactured as a weapon
theatlantic.com
What We Really Know About the Russian ‘Plague’ Case
Even though many questions remain unanswered, the death probably isn’t cause for panic.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
At what point do we consider Trump an enemy of the state?
usatoday.com
Trump sparks outrage with remarks about LA, San Diego at rally
California leaders are condemning President Trump after he suggested that destroying Los Angeles or San Diego is a small price to pay for Iran War.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well done Webster
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
First Dennis Hastert and now Jim Bakker. I feel like celebrity deaths come in threes, so I wonder what scandal-plagued Octagenerian is on the horizon
nytimes.com
Jim Bakker, Television Preacher Felled by Sex and Financial Scandals, Dies at 86
With his wife, Tammy Faye, Mr. Bakker built a broadcasting juggernaut around the gospel of prosperity.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I hope Germany turns things around and starts doing well again in international soccer. Not just because they’re my main soccer squeeze, but so Klopp, an amazing coach and a wonderful human being, can throw this racist drivel back in the faces of the Neo-Nazis trying to co-opt German culture
nytimes.com
Jurgen Klopp brands accusation that Germany team is ‘not white enough’ as ‘complete nonsense’ (Gift Article)
"I have little time in everyday life for idiocy," the former Liverpool manager added during a press conference.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Proud cat dad and example of healthy masculinity (supposedly?)
nytimes.com
It’s a Great Time to Be a Guy Who Loves His Cat
We’re living in the age of the “cat dad” and he’s being used to sell premium cat products and talk about healthy masculinity.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Grade A trolling from Manchester United to put this on Old Trafford Road, but also 100% deserved. Also, for those of you who claim that the verdicts are opinions or unproven: no, the verdict is in and Man City are proven cheats and rule breakers. The appeal can only doubt the process, not the facts
tribuna.com
‘Welcome to Shamchester!’: Man City trolled with savage billboard outside Old Trafford
Manchester United fans have been handed some unexpected pre-match entertainment after Paddy Power took aim at their noisy neighbours with a brutally cheeky message outside Old Trafford.A new billboard...
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m no ARod fan but holy shit I definitely don’t ever want Watson to win at anything #ThursdayNightFootball
apple.news
Deshaun Watson's vile rehabilitation campaign was the focus of Thursday Night Football — SB Nation
It was impossible to watch Thursday Night Football without being beaten over the head with veiled references to Deshaun Watson’s past.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reagan was getting demented during his second term. He at least had the fortitude and wherewithal to hide it. People have Pooh-Poohed my past musings that the paucity of content and tangential quality to Trump’s language was a sign of looming dementia. I think it’s pretty hard to deny now.
time.com
Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At the crossroads of pseudoscience and AI apologists is this very very stupid subculture #PlayStupidGamesWinStupidPrizes
futurism.com
People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy fans share tactics to bypass AI safeguards in order to reinforce their belief in the medicinal qualities of pee.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cheaters win championships: “City have been found guilty on all but one of the 115 charges, according to sources briefed on the matter who spoke anonymously as they were not authorised to do so publicly.”
nytimes.com
Manchester City found guilty on almost all Premier League charges relating to financial breaches (Gift Article)
City were charged by the Premier League in February 2023.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, has warned repeatedly about A.I.’s risks to humanity, while reportedly accelerating the company’s expansion plans ahead of its initial public offering.(As the economist Owen Lamont joked, it’s “like Robert Oppenheimer doing an I.P.O. for the Manhattan Project in 1945.”)
nytimes.com
Opinion | Has A.I. Become Too Big to Fail? Or Is It Something Worse?
It’s as though 2008 never even happened.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There is no other policy position than stop AI now
nytimes.com
OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In case there is any confusion: IUDs do not cause abortions
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Bottom line: We cannot leave these decisions to the AI executives. Not when it comes to stealing content, and not when it comes to the fate of humanity. Left to their own devices, they will make the wrong choices—even when they know those choices are bad for them, too.”
motherjones.com
AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I mean, there are so many layers of awfulness here
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Anthropic and OpenAI: we’re concerned, let’s slow down development. Also Anthropic and OpenAI: here are new inexpensive versions to get you hooked on our doomsday product
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is the only time I will ever believe that Susan Collins is “very concerned”
rollingstone.com
Susan Collins Was Target of Federal Bribery Case … Until Trump Gutted the FBI
Maine Senator Susan Collins was targeted by the FBI in an investigation into illegal campaign donations and influence peddling, ProPublica reported.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Holy smokes
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Somebody dig into who these 750,000 people are. Something tells me there will be a common thread or two
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No one can talk me out of my dislike for AI in all but the narrowest of applications and NEVER for art
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
USAID is not perfect, but it does the best it can to save people across the world and give them a better life, which generates goodwill and cooperation from not just the vulnerable people and governments that we help but also those looking toward us as an example. Shuttering this is cruel and stupid
politico.com
Trump to divert $2.5B to shutter USAID, let other cash expire next week, Democrats warn
In the final days of the fiscal year, federal dollars remain unspent.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m both glad that this is happening and horrified that it wasn’t already a basic standard. Where else is something as fundamental as temperature control not accounted for?
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is so fucking dumb I can’t stand it. Our brains are very nearly turning to mush, or critical thinking just a few years away from being taken in hook line and sinker
gadgetreview.com
One AI Claim About a Chinese Ship Nearly Triggered a US Military Response
US military aircraft were airborne before officials discovered an AI chatbot fabricated the nuclear cargo report that nearly triggered a confrontation with China.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Say a silent prayer for the death of American scientific activity. And then call your representatives and senators. Especially if they’re Republican.
nytimes.com
White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’s good that this is being acknowledged publicly by the people who are the problem. But this feels like hand-wringing so that they can evade blame when shit hits the fan while taking no meaningful action. Nothing short of either a complete halt and graded restart or government oversight will work
apple.news
Biggest AI Rivals Agree They Need to Slow It Down — The Wall Street Journal
Elon Musk and Sam Altman support Anthropic boss’s plea to reduce risks that ‘something goes seriously wrong’
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Some good news
abcnews.com
Nashville Airport Authority approves renaming airport in honor of Dolly Parton
The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority voted unanimously, 6-0, to begin the process of renaming the Nashville International Airport in honor of Dolly Parton.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Tua needs to ‘tire
espn.com
Tagovailoa out, Rush to start at QB for Falcons vs. Steelers
The Falcons will start backup Cooper Rush at quarterback in Sunday's opener against the Steelers after ruling starter Tua Tagovailoa out with an oblique injury.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I lived in New Mexico long enough to know this is declaration of war
nytimes.com
Trump Posts Map Suggesting New Mexico Be Renamed as ‘New America’
The suggestion, posted on social media, appeared to be the latest in the president’s efforts to alter geographic names.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
David Brooks has a lot of bad takes. This is not one of them.
theatlantic.com
AI Is Already Making Us Less Human
As we learn to think more and more highly of the bots, we will learn to think less and less highly of our fellow humans.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We yell and scream about Flock and in the same gesture invite robotaxis into our lives. Which is the same damn technofeudalist surveillance. We are nothing if not hypocrites.
cnbc.com
Waymo and Zoox expand into more U.S. markets as robotaxi race heats up
Waymo is bringing driverless rides to three more cities, and Amazon plans to start testing in two additional U.S. markets.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The banality of evil
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is some Orwellian shit when the button says “Buy” and the company assumes “Rent” Breaking: Sony also says no reasonable consumer believes they are anything besides a serf
videogameschronicle.com
Sony says ‘reasonable consumers’ know they don’t own the digital games they buy | VGC
It’s “not plausible” to suggest people believe they’re “obtaining ownership”…
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thanks Apple, I hate this
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The only death penalty I support: “More formally known as judicial dissolution, the corporate death penalty basically happens when the government is so pissed off by the corruption or damage a corporation causes that it yanks away their charter.”
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Idaho banned used of mRNA vaccines. I guess good thing they don’t get a ton of sunshine in that state, maybe they won’t need this cancer breakthrough…
nytimes.com
Moderna, Merck Say mRNA Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning
Moderna and Merck say the experimental vaccine prevented the return and spread of the cancer in high-risk melanoma patients.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Oh damn
bbc.com
Guinness: 162-year-old bottle of stout found off the coast of Dover
Samples from the bottle have been sent for analysis, with researchers hoping to learn more about what the stout would have tasted like.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“From 1989 to 2026, we’ve had Democratic presidents for 20 years and Republicans for 17.4 years. Care to hazard a guess as to the number of jobs created under Democrats vs. Republicans? Answer: It’s 49.8 million versus 1.9 million. That isn’t a typo.”
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Tragic doesn’t even begin to describe this situation. This tech is not ready for prime time and we are suffering all its consequences.
npr.org
She told no one about her agony except ChatGPT. What her death reveals about AI risks
A 29-year-old woman confided her suicidal thoughts to an AI chatbot — not to her therapist, not to her parents, not to her best friend. What can AI learn from her death?
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Missed this story from last year. Free speech is great, and deplatforming is probably too draconian. But I think something in between where influencers can face consequences for dishing out bullshit, unsubstantiated advice and can’t hide behind “do your own research” is probably not the worst idea
forbes.com
China’s Credentialing Crackdown: A Reset For The Influencer Economy
China has mandated influencers prove credentials for professional advice, aiming to curb misinformation and reshape digital authority beyond its borders.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
College should not just be a means to a career. It’s a place to shape a mind, make connections, be human. And listening to Sam Altman talk about anything other than AI is preposterous, he doesn’t know shit about what it means to be a part of civilization, he is actively trying to destroy it.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If this is a continued developing trend that can be applied to other preventative medical interventions, Generation Alpha is going to grow up as some of the sickest kids in over a century, and misinformed Millennial and Zoomer parents will bear that blame
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Post 2 of 2 of the declining college experience
theatlantic.com
Even College Students Have Stopped Hanging Out
The loneliness crisis comes to campus.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Post 1 of 2 about the declining college experience:
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
On the one hand, Trump is defined by bluster and one can’t take anything be says as dogma into he does it. On the other hand, this is how madmen talk.
usatoday.com
Trump threatens to bomb Oman if it 'gets in the way' of US-Iran talks
President Trump threatened military action against US ally Oman if its negotiations with Iran interfere with U.S. efforts to reach a deal with Tehran.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We took the salty sea with us when we learned to walk on land. Now we take the CO2 with us as we warm and poison our air
sciencedaily.com
Scientists detect a surprising shift in human blood as atmospheric CO2 rises
Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may be leaving a measurable imprint inside the human body. Researchers analyzing more than two decades of U.S. health data found that blood bicarbonate levels h...
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Say no to technofascism
motherjones.com
The race to stop AI’s threats to democracy
Tech journalist Karen Hao sounds the alarm about the rising risks to the country—and planet—from the growth of artificial intelligence.
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Bzz Bzz @simplyb1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Follow-up to my last post about ICE using sock gloves. Our country is sick in the head.
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